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2) Dim sum
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A Chinese immigrant widow faces the New Year with apprehension after it is predicted that it would be the year she dies. Her list of things to do, which includes seeing her daughter get married and visiting China one last time, soon comes into focus.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the role that won her Broadway’s acclaimed Tony Award, Pauline Collins is the hilariously endearing SHIRLEY VALENTINE, a wisecracking, completely unpredictable English housewife who proves it’s never too late to recapture your dreams. Bored with her suburban life, Shirley takes a chance on adventure when a friend invites her on a vacation to Greece. Within no time she’s back to her rebellious teenage roots, saying yes to a wild fling with...
4) P.s
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Louise is a divorced, thirty-something admission's office at Columbia University's School of Fine Arts who is unfulfilled in her love life. That is, until a graduate school application crosses her desk and she arranges to interview the young painter. Scott bears the same name and has an uncanny resemblance to Louise's high school boyfriend and one true love, an artist who died in a car accident twenty years earlier. Within hours of the interview,...
5) Nine lives
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Nine women each face a different situation in their lives. Among the stories told by director Rodrigo Garcia are a female inmate waiting for her children's visit, a woman facing cancer surgery, and a woman reuniting with an old flame at the supermarket.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Rosalind is the daughter of banished Duke Senior and is being raised at the court of Duke Frederick, with her cousin Celia. She falls in love with a young man named Orlando, but she is banished by Duke Frederick, who threatens death if she comes near the court again. Celia goes with Rosalind. Disguised as the boy Ganymede, Rosalind enters the forest of Arden. Upon their arrival in the forest, they happen upon Orlando and his manservant, who are fleeing...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Lizzie is a prize-winning student heading off to Harvard for her freshman year, where she intends to study journalism and launch a career as a rock music critic. However, Lizzie's dysfunctional family situation includes an errant father and a neurotic, bitterly hypercritical mother who has led Lizzie to a struggle with depression. When her all-night, drug-fueled writing binges and emotional instability alienate her roommate and best friend, Ruby,...
8) Sherrybaby
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A young woman with a history of drug abuse returns home after a 3-year prison sentence, to reconnect with her 5-year-old daughter while trying to adjust to the outside world once again.
9) Downfall
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Takes you into Hitler's bunker, in 1945, during the brutal and harrowing last days of the Third Reich. Seen through the eyes of Hitler's infamous secretary Traudl Junge, optimism crumbles into grim realization and terror as it becomes clear that Germany's defeat is inevitable. As the Russian army circles the city, the dimly lit halls of the underground refuge become an execution chamber for the Fuhrer and his closest advisors.
10) The Oh in Ohio
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Priscilla has the life - except for in bed, where sex has always left her a bit short of the finish line. When her husband unexpectedly leaves her, Priscilla embarks on a wild journey that leads her to love in the most unlikely place.
Publisher
Westlake Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Palfrey, an elegant, genteel widow, came from Scotland to London to take up residence at the Claremont Hotel. Though she had high hopes for the cosmopolitan pleasures of living in a big city, she is soon filled with a sense of uneasiness and gloom.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Helen McCarter would seem to have it all. She's married to Charles who is one of Atlanta's most successful attorneys. But despite having wealth and prestige, things are not as they seem in the McCarter home. On the evening of their anniversary, Charles drops a bombshell on Helen - he's divorcing her for another woman. Thrown out of the house with nowhere to go, Helen moves in with her grandmother Madea, a sassy woman with no shortage of opinions and...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Français
Description
Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets, and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in love with Balsan's former best friend Arthur Capel.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miranda is the editor of "Runway" magazine. She is a terror to everyone who is around. Her first assistant strives to please her, but can't quite pull it off. Enter Andy, a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry and has never read the magazine. Nonetheless, Miranda, hires her a second assistant. When Miranda demands that she obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript, it forces Andy to dig it up in order to please her boss....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of her fiancé, Gray finds comfort in the company of his friends: lighthearted and comic Sam, hyper-responsible Dennis, and Dennis' old childhood buddy Fritz, an irresponsible playboy whom Gray had previously pegged as one of the least reliable people in the world. As secrets about her supposedly perfect fiancé emerge, Gray comes to see new sides of the man she thought she knew, and at the same time, finds herself drawn to...
16) Dreamland
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A young girl must decide between taking care of her father and friend, both of whom are sick and need her the most, and doing what will truly make her happy.
17) Offside
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Persian
Description
The Tehran soccer stadium roars with 100,000 cheering men and only men. According to Islamic custom, women are not permitted to watch or participate. The ambitious girls who manage to sneak into the arenas are caught and sent to a holding pen, guarded by male soldiers their own age. Duty makes these young men and women adversaires, but duty can't overcome their shared dreams, their mutual attraction, and ultimately their overriding sense of national...
18) Vanity fair
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Becky is determined to make something of herself. She accepts a job as a nanny for the children of Sir Pitt Crawley. Becky catches the eye of Crawley's son Rawdon. Becky is introduced to London's most exclusive social circle, where she becomes re-acquainted with Amelia. Becky weds Rawdon, but the social and economic stability she dreamed of begins to collapse when he begins drowning his troubles, and soon she turns to the powerful Marquess of Steyne...
19) Gia
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Based on the tragic life of America's first supermodel. It is the late 70's in New York City - the home of Studio 54, designer jeans, drugs and disco. One girl is living life in the fast lane. She can have any man - or woman - she wants. Sex, money, glamour, fame - it was all within her reach. She walks toward you across the dance floor, struts toward you down the runway, stares at you from the cover of a magazine. She was a star who appeared on the...
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Serbian
Description
A touching film about a single mother who lives with her 12-year-old daughter in the Grbavica district of Sarajevo, a neighborhood once used as an internment camp during the Yugoslav wars. A beautiful and tender story that you won't soon forget.